Good morning everyone!
How i could miss this topic?

Well guys, seems that summer is coming here in Sardinia! 20°C at 6:30AM this morning and yesterday it was around 30°C.. Auch! I fear that will be a really really hot summer.. Luckily i can move to the sea whenever i want.

By the way, nice idea to open this thread, i hope it will be usefull for many italian's bikers!
My english skill it's quite good when i write and read, it's a bit difficult to understand when the people speaks fast (or at least it seems to me but they talk normal ), but at least i'm understandable when i'm the one who is speaking.

Anyway, who even tried to understand japanese people when they speak english? Damn, they are really hard to understand and most of the times i'm lost and i keep watching them like "Hey dude what the hell did you said?". Anyone else feel the same with them?

Now, this is an excellent idea! I live in Tarquinia, about 80Km North of Rome, on the Tyrrhenian coast. Once a powerful Etruscan city, now not so powerful anymore, Tarquinia is still full of ancient buildings and monuments and loads of tourists come to visit Etruscan tombs here.

I love riding my BWM R1200RT, the fourth of the series, and, together with my partner, we like touring in Italy as well as abroad. In a few weeks we will be leaving for Norway where we hope to spend a very nice 4 weeks riding across the country. We may reach Nordkapp but only if we do not get stuck before in some lovely place. I have been to the Cape in 2009 and, frankly, it is not that great; as the say goes: the journey is the reward!

It wil be nice chatting with you guys and maybe we can meet sometime!

Well Marco, I think that your motorbike is absolutely perfect for long trips! It looks so comfortable, you can load it very well and the engine is very good (110 CV, right?)!
I got a wonderful 2005 Honda Hornet (you can see it here more or less at half page: Topic presentazioni nuovi possessori Honda Hornet ), I bought it in last September and I love it! I'd like to take some trip as you do, but my bike it's no properly comfortable for that, and also my almost-wife doesn't like it very much...
Anyway, please stay in touch and let us know some news about your Nordkapp trip!

Indeed, the RT is a very comfortable bike, but I have been riding about 3,000Km in a week to go through the Route des Grandes Alpes last August on a small Kawasaki ER-6N, always with my girlfriend on the back seat, so I know how it is to ride for long hours on a not-so-comfortable bike...

I will be writing a live report of our trip to Norway and will post the link here so that, if you are interested, you will be able to follow us step-by-step. It will be in Italian, though, but I can summarize it in English here for you!

Having a good look around the forums and have just found this English 'zone' - I hope I will be forgiven for using my husband's profile for this message, but I wanted to add a comment before I lost the thread! I will certainly sign up in my own name shortly, but just wanted to say that I am British, living in the Veneto. We have a Guzzi Stelvio now, but last year we did a road trip over to the UK and back with a Guzzi California - the so-called 'Ciupa Ciupa' - a beautiful bike - extremely comfortable but not adapted to all road situations (and with a relatively small tank). We are both in the well over 50s (I will shortly celebrate my 62nd birthday) but as eager as ever to get out on the bike come summer or winter.

Hope to be able to contribute occasionally in the forums - doubt if my husband will write much, so I must sign up for myself. There's a lot to learn in here - and if any newbies of a certain age want to discuss bike travel with a little grey-haired biddy, I'm possibly the one to talk to!!!